Existential Anthropology: Events, Exigencies, and EffectsInspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Jackson explores a variety of compelling topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they yet possess for creating viable forms of social life. |
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Events, Exigencies, and Effects Michael Jackson. Existential Anthropology Methodology and History in Anthropology General Editor: David Parkin, Director Existential Anthropology.
... 9 Louis Dumont and Hierarchical Opposition By Robert Parkin Volume 10 Categories of Self: Louis Dumont's Theory of the Individual By André Celtel EXISTENTIAL ANTHROPOLOGY Events, Exigencies and Effects Michael Jackson Berghahn Books.
... Existentialism. I. Title. BD450.J234 2004 128--dc22 2004053833 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Printed on acid-free paper ISBN 978-1-57181-476-0 ...
... Foreign Bodies The Prose of Suffering Whose Human Rights? Existential Imperatives Bibliography Index vii ix 15 3. 35 4. 53 5. 75 6. 93 7. 111 8. 127 9. 143 159 181 195 211 ... for several decades now our world has been changing. CONTENTS.
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Chapter 3 VIOLENCE AND INTERSUBJECTIVE REASON | 35 |
AN ESSAY ON ANARCHY | 53 |
Chapter 5 WHATS IN A NAME? AN ESSAY ON THE POWER OF WORDS | 75 |
Chapter 6 MUNDANE RITUAL | 93 |
Chapter 7 BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE CRITIQUE OF GLOBALISATION | 111 |
Chapter 8 FAMILIAR AND FOREIGN BODIES | 127 |
Chapter 9 THE PROSE OF SUFFERING | 143 |
Chapter 10 WHOSE HUMAN RIGHTS? | 159 |
Chapter 11 EXISTENTIAL IMPERATIVES | 181 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 195 |
INDEX | 211 |
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